GHSF Daily asked Georgia head coaches to answer these four questions. We'll report from a different head coach each day.
Joshua Moore, B.E.S.T. Academy
1. Who is/was the most influential person in your coaching career? "There is a two-way tie for this one. Early on it was my father, Rufus Moore. He was a college athletic trainer. This meant that I was around the game all the time, which allowed me to see all aspects of football at an early age - the locker room, practice, games, pre-game meals, road trips, post-game meals, meetings, injury treatment in the training room. I saw it all. This created the initial hunger for the game. Coach Ronnie Millen was my biggest influence from middle school on. Not only was he my middle school PE teacher, but he was also my offensive coordinator at Henry W. Grady High School, where I played quarterback for him. After I finished playing college ball, he allowed me to tag along and help out the program after he became the head coach as well as take me to coaches' clinics. He was also instrumental in helping me get my first job teaching and coaching in middle school and has been a mentor for me ever since."
2. Who is the best Georgia player you ever faced? "The best player I have ever faced was as a player when I played for Grady. Ronnie Brown from Cartersville was a man amongst boys. We faced his Cartersville team my senior year in the first round of the state playoffs, and he was unstoppable. That was the last game of my high school career."
3. What is the best team you ever faced as a coach? "Carver of Columbus in the playoffs last year. They were so strong and fast. We gave them everything we had, and it just wasn't enough."
4. If you were Gary Phillips, the new head of the GHSA, what would be the first rule that you would try to change? "First let me start off with 'I love all referees.' With that being said, I would like to see something done about the ejection rule. There needs to be a window of appeal where if a kid or coach was ejected and it was deemed unwarranted, that player or coach shouldn't have to sit out the next game. The way it is now, the only thing you get if it's a bad call is an apology, but in the meantime you have a player or coach missing what could be a critical game."
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